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- — BILL WOULD GUT Cramton Measure $8,000,000 Appropriation Instead of $9 000.000. une ibution by the ard the mui Al Capital ored fixed pro t in- stead of the portion of 30 cd in the Hous: which has now years At present th tion is $9,000,00 that the bu on; veloped as z e sure Jard and ot Jers nitiee on the chaivina civil » n ityoubed the which provides a new board to the present nt of 5 provided in a bil Representative Under is aimed to assure Di ation for ac- in the dis- 16 measure the Board the Dis ointment by strict_Supreme . is the purpose of a bill intro- 1 by Representative Gasque of Jth Carolina. Representative Dyer of Missouri pro- two additional justices on the Supreme Court: Representa- dred. New ork, proposed vent of a national police bu- Pose Kvale, Minnesota, bolition of capital punishment strict; Representative Weller, k, asked establishment of a nservatory of music, with e. California. Florida and "es deslgnated by Its govern- . Representaive Hawes, Mis- 1d raise the compensation nd petit jurors from $3 to tative O’Connor. \ml»\ would grant leaves of ab- > to postzl employes on account death in family; Representative oy, Kentucky, would make the Government liable for suit when any of its agents or employes causes in- r death 1o & person; Represent- Andrews, Massachusetts, pro purchase of the painting, ace,” whic has bung alternately e Capitol and the room of the 1 affulrs committee for the last other pl in bo soart, Ne: r) ;n\rfi Representative Morrow, New Mex- o. introduced & bill providing that Government shall pay a propor- tionate cost of street paving on streets butted by its yvr()l‘l?‘ Representa- tive Linthicum ryland. introduced to ms he Star Spangled * the national anthem. BLOCKED BY RED TAPE. broadeasting the reading Coolidge’s message to ue entangled in some of red tape, and the )t be straightened out as can be learned, real opposition to dcasting the speech as had been snned, Inn vhen were rules and Jrecedent to be overcomg. maressional bmyrna T1gs Superior Quality 1-1b. Wood Box @ulled) << iassancia 2-lb. Box 7 Crown (Bulled) isssiesisns 5-b. Box 7 Crown (Balled) . ... 7-Crown Pulled Fig: 45c 85¢ $1.90 40c Cooking Figs, lb AR 0-0z. Glass Jar Steril- izediBigs o..co0tia s 12-0z. Glass Jar Steril- ized Figs . 15-0z. Glass Jar Steril- ized Figs .. .. 14-0z. Glass Jar Stuffed Dates and Figs . Magruder Inc. Best Groceries Conn. Ave. and K- St. Phone Main 4180, Established 1573 20c 30c¢ Seeks, | forh | ter in Washington. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Congress hus got started withe any casualties. The thunder lightning Vice President Dawes tu ed loose on the Ney the 4th of last March hes beconme a gentle purr. | Tlie Vice President upparent e terniined to get along with ords as possible. He also has indi 1 that he will not forego his usuai ing the tie votes broke | While there was sou ut in the crowded = ihut the Vice Preside or heave his g rant opponent a change | the rules. the real interest of the { sessiun has been in the uenuan. powe Nick” Longworth, and Chesterfieldian Speaker House of Representatives elevation has been the distinct s s well as political event of the No mun ever has ken up the eavel in the House under happler auspices. Th When Nick 1 bappy s Everybody said be was a “broud everybudy expected Lim but he sald “man thunked His It~| blican brothers nked his Demo. \.eum- iey dldn't He didn't litul 13 s he Wisconsin nd old Henry who led the forlorn La at the Cleveland con vorth's sartorial splendor llenged by voung Bob La | another mutiny in the Re- publican ranks which must he quelled {at any cost. The lors of Washing- j ton are hoping the battle will be a long und arduous one. Young Bob won the | Spat honors of the day. however. His “ conven n the latest maste! k didn't patent had ray cloth custom-made job. had advance infor ob might appear His father al His trousers ce of the draper's ar ts. His boots. however, tops—evidently Speaker Pabout il {wear THE EVENING . STAR, 'WASHINGTON, ‘NICK” LONGWORTH, NEW SPEAKER| OF HOUSE, BLOOMS SARTORIALLY' I_UMP SUM FURU [} Rivalled Only b\ “\oun" Bob™ in Perfection of Clothes—Dawes Indicates He Won’t Miss Nap, nate or No Senate. and ) follow in the footsteps of his eer. Nick's worning coat tection. -In fact, the ar the handsomest ind best Washington ever has seen. Worried About Speech. Gillett of Mussachuseits was no | when 1L éame to groom- | oud lovks, but Mr. Long won Senator groomed My ' bas L i (he we of the llouse and i i inoment the | there lll( Nick's inaugu Speaker was @ bit nervous address, by the way. He dly typed and stuck away m his inside pocket. When he was being “introduced” to the House and belng luud-d above all partisan by Finis Garrett, the Demo ic leader. Nick kept fumbling at his pocket until he found the precious bits of paper and luid them on the | desk betore bim. Nick's ucrvousness | natural. for once in Columbus, | 5. he 10st his speech and. like Lit | tle Bo-Pecp. he didn't know where to find it. Just before House & D worth Low The ne had it ¢ »egun in the | measure up ‘e thous would result an't say about that. we 1 Kknow who's choice.” Wife Shares Longworth of the day. s oftice 1most * replied Nick the people’s 1 1 | i | Honors. | shured in the| She wus in the of the time, as- 15l graciousness reception which Mrs. Longworth's eust disturb Repre- addressed Alice Speake: sisting i the tmprow Nick had to stage. equanimity was not ed. even when un enthu sentative from the her Mrs. Tooseveli Speaking of spats, them. He was Lrother Representative. How cun you ever regard your: s a man of the plain people and = farmers if you wear spats?’ he wanted to know. “I don't know." sald La Follette; he wears ‘cn The new Speaker suys he doesn't mind being called even by his casual acquaintances, but it fs under ood only his most intimate ass ciates can refer to him as “Old Nick (Conyright. 1925 ) Nick used to taunted by a ASKSAIDINY.W.C.A. »1 DRIVE T0 HELP GIRLS | w 1 Mrs. Mabel W. Wlllehmudt Tells of Organization's Work in Giv- l ing Cheap Recreation Not an adventurous money to spend in their own so much as stern economic nece: is forcing young women into the com- mercial world today. according to Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistar Tnited States Attorney General, who spoke from Radio Station WCAP last night on the subject of “The Y. W.| C. A and the Girl Who Seeks a| Career. ‘Whatever the reds(m " My brandt declared, “women are in the business world to stay, and thousands | have come to Washington.” Describing the work of the Y. C. A. among girls_who come seeking o career. Mps. Willebr told of the rooms registry and club | ctivities of the assoclation. h that young women here earn from 5 o week and spend from $10 to $15 of this amount for board and room. There is little, if anything, available to them in the city in the way of in- expensive recreation Twice in its histor: Willebrandt. “has the ) C. A. urged the national contribute to a city : first instance was Hollywood. where the Y. W. C. A., in co-operation with the motior picture industry, bull studio club for voung women who came to Hollywood to enter the | desir | Wille- | & movies. The second instance is in Washington, where a national cam- | palgn is now in progress for a build ing here. Team workers reporting at Y. W. A. campaign headquarters last night | and vesterday noon brought the loudl of the assoclation’s $700,000 building and maintenance fund to $257.941. Tonight Miss Minnle V. Sandberg will speak for the Y. W. C. A. at a meeting of the Lincoln Park Citizens' | Assoctation, and Miss Bertha Pabst at | a meeting of the Men's Club of the Chyrch of the.Covenant. e A French inventor and maker of a partly formed tie wire for line con- ductors plans to ofler it in America. At 17th & H Sts. Branch | COL. COOLIDGE LISTENS IN | the | headsets to listen in | Coolidze d | For Xmas we cut to order. T There’s fine woods. You'll SPECIAL, $2.25 —FLOOR WAXING BRUSH and One-Lb. can of STAPLES WAX, Special, $2.25. 734 ‘Thirteenth St. {ON SON’S CHICAGO SPEECH President’s Message of Encourage- ment to Farmers Transmitted by | Radio to Vermont Home. By the Associgted Press PLYMOUTH, Vt., December 8.—~The radio did another good turn for Col. John C. Coolidge vesterday. Tt spanned the miles between him and Chicago, where his son, the President, was delivering u message of en. | courag: to the farmer. The nel’'s receiving set made ready in the sitting room. with Dick Brown, a young man of the neighborhool, on hand to tune in. Dick and Angus McAuley, guard of Coolidge home. stood by und ched the colonel, or used extra ey said Col. ed,” but he was fing comment even rent was “looked pl silent, not voucl the end of the this work afternoon Coats o 1t they are con be surprised e. Special Low Prices WOL FURRIER 3234 I'Inrl a4 Xmas Cards 5¢ to 35¢ A fine assortment of select cards for all members of the family. CREERON 614 12th St. N.W. Arou. the Corner from High Prices Between F and G Sts, {Bwners of sthermaked! i tradeqm(h)qfn , Studebaker Power Durability Finish GLASS TOPS Furniture IFT Tables, Dressers, Chiffoniers,-Desks, etc., are greatly improved in appearance by the finishing touch of Glass Tops, such as practical value also in glass tops, for they protect, without conceallng. the grain and polish of find our furniture tops VERY REASONABLE. Prices for glass WOOD STAINS —Enamels, Floor Wax and all such Fall furbish- ing-up supplies at Eco- nomical Prices. D.C.DISTRUBUTORS OF SHERWIN-WILLIAMS, MURPHY VAR- NISH CO. AND OTHER WIDELY KNOWN PAINT PRODUCTS. DYER BROTHERS TNCORPORATED Paints for Every Purpose Phone Frank. 8328 L] G.0.P.PROMPTLY | MILITARY TRAINING ORGANIZES HOUSE HELD OF HIGH VALUE Regulars Elect Speaker andI Order Change in Rules by | Safe Majorities. Umversnty Head Sees In- struction in Schools as Method of Preparedness. | Majority control of the House by the conservative Republicans W prompuly exerclscd vesterduy not on In the election of Representative | Nicholus Longworth to be Speaker by a vote of to 186, but also in the | determination to change the rulex oi the House, which was accomplished in spite of stubborn minority opposi tion by a vote of 208 to i95. Besides changing the unumber of members to be appointed to certuin commiittees, the rules of the House as they operated in the Sixty-eighth Congress wre changed in only one im portant respect. Thix was in the weukening of the famous provision drawn by Repr Charles Crisp of Georgin. parlfamentarian of the House his tuther was Speaker of the present system of traluing in land s made toda military leges w Woods. Marylund and a membe tive committee of the Association of | & 1 Grant Colleges and Universities. | His views were brought out by a | atement issued Sunduy night ¢ group of church ! public officials und I the present tendenc training in education: Problems of World War Cited. :quainted with problems that faced the United States at the thne ot the World War, Dr. Woods | said. realizes the “supreme importance of this work in the colleges. lie added that there is a great dif ference between inflitarism as it has the discharge of ' beer developed in Continental Europe consideration of "and mil preparedness as it i of' 150 member een understood in the United S would bring the and England J fon n the 2. s spon i Sees No Militaristic been cvidence of tic spirit in the schools. he ! and the work, besides being important trom the standpoint of na tional defense, is of high educational value of the execu- | institutions. Any one who wus | while Provision of Crisp Meas This provided for a comunitiee from any bill on vote which wutonatic House Spirit. in This rule w: e last Cong There has never or board time blocked (he cloxe of the As put through by the Re majority petition is ne wetion even looking to the recall of u bill. Upon & majority petition & comi- | sl 1hey were “so misleading and far mittee may be directed (o report infrom the truth that it is almost im een days and majority action again | possible that a group of intelligent requinsdy :Oulsf"k"-@“'-l‘”_;"’l ,‘.hf\”: | peopte, who shouid be In clos l]l\r]ulh endar. T 8 its PARE with questions o his n shou! 50 This latter action may only be taken | fur e the mark on the third Monday of each mont . Referring to the statenients assail lie training methods. Dr. Woods Important Rules Undisturbed. Two other important chanzes in the Houyse rules, however, as adopted in the Sixty-eighth Congress were not disturbed, & are Ul operative. One )f these was fathered by Representa- | tive Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, the | ir minority leader, whick el inated ”‘('lu rule sharply restricting the right to|ther that a rule may be called up at propose amendments to revenue | uny time for consideration. not only bill. | by the chairman, but by any member The other was a rule offered by |of the ruies committee. who has been Representative Walton Moore of | designated by the committee, and fu Virginia. which requires that a reso- | ther that no such resolution sho lution adopted by the rules committee [ be tuken up the of its adoption, must be reported to the House and | but hould lie over for at least one put on the calendar instead of remain- ! d H@M@K&%t&!@@%@”&%@&%fi%} %M{)’E During the past decade the per capita consumption of meat in Europe has made an average increase of 50 per cent efinitely In the custody of the man of the committee. and fur. Store Closed Today and Wednesday Account of Death of EMMONS S. 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